Anne Bonny was a trailblazer. She was born (née Anne Cormac) in Ireland but emigrated with her family to what would later become the United States as a teenager. She married a sailor, John Bonny, against her father’s wishes, and sailed off with him into the figurative sunset. When her marriage turned sour, she took up with the infamous pirate John (“Calico Jack”) Rackham. Together they commandeered a ship and began pillaging along the coast of Jamaica. Although women were considered bad luck aboard ship, Anne did little to conceal her gender—unlike crewmate Mary Read. In 1720 Rackham and his crew were captured. The male crew members were hung for piracy, but Bonny and Read got stays of execution in the way only women can—pregnancy! Bonny was later released and lived the remainder of her life in a quieter fashion.